Galena Triathlon?

You're ok with hills, right?

Expecting water to be very cold this year with the way weather has been going. I'm partially wondering if they'll be able to have the swim if USAT does have a 51F cut-off if I saw that correctly before? I only did it in 2012, the hot year with not much of a winter to warm up from (running in shorts in February). 

I'm bringing a pair of shoes to get through T1. It's been rather gravely in the past and they allow this. My feet just do not handle rough surfaces well at all and it was horrible for me last time. A lot of people do set out shoes along the way for this.

The first half of the bike is the same. Good hill *right* after the mount line. And then lots of up and down out to Stagecoach. The area really shows who can pace over varying terrain and who's been hitting a variety of hard efforts. Previously it turned off of Stagecoach after just a bit, but this year it goes all the way to Galena. I mapped it on RideWithGPS and the profile still looks fairly similar. About a mile climb and good descent after. I'm guessing the descent may not be quite as fast as Stagecoach isn't as much of a backroad as the the other. But do know I hit 47 while sitting upright, so relatively speaking there.

The run will have a big hill rather quick out of T2, and then the rest is much flatter until coming back down. Though it still may not be that near "pancake" in this area.

I don't know the area well enough to say how easy the 2 transitions will go. A bit cumbersome in 2012, but I don't how they could have fixed it. Race morning was easy though, especially with the later start time. Heard last year was gawd awful, but they had T2 and the finish separate, plus a lot of restrictions on how to move around. This year they should be closer together. Still going to be a pretty full day due to logistics needed, but thinking the course should be fun.

Arman has been commenting on their FB page. Though it's been on the swim which would be something new for him. Water temp was listed as 62, but wondering how well that will hold over the next few days as the temps are supposed to drop back down.

Odds on this becoming all duathlon this year? Not looking good for the swim with the weather since Tuesday.

I'm bailing on the race too. They're being all screwy with the swim cut-offs and logistics. It was hard enough to plan for this one as it was and I'm not really up for a duathlon.

I'm familiar with how some of the fastest people should go and their times did look rather slow. So yeah, would guess it was a little longer than advertised. I don't know why they don't state what it is. At least for the bike. For the run, I'm not sure why they keep making it so long for a sprint.

How were things after the race? And I mean being able to get your stuff and get out of there. I saw they were good about t2 and before the race the day of went well before, but took forever to get the gear from T1 over there. I have no idea why that took several hours. And i think it may have been a couple after I had finished. A lesser concern is how ridiculously late they'll have awards for some examples. Once out on the course it is a fun area. It's not an easy area to run a race in, but they always seem to have some real head scratching decisions that add to it. That and some of their communication tends to be less than stellar. If they could fix that I would be much more inclined to race their again. As it is, this is a lot of effort just to get in an earlier season sprint.